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Skywatchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction saw the start of an upcoming "planet parade" in the eastern sky. Here's ...
Half a dozen planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - will put on a dazzling display in the sky on ...
New images released from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light.
NASA has announced the discovery of TOI-3261 b, a rare “hot Neptune” exoplanet that defies the odds by surviving in an extreme environment. This Neptune-sized planet orbits its host star so ...
Want to spot up to six planets at once in the night sky? Look up before dawn this week for the second and last "planet parade ...
New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.
On August 19, 2025, astronomers with NASA's Webb Mission Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center officially announced the discovery of a new moon orbiting Uranus. This brings the total number of moons ...
Neptune’s auroras occur near the mid-latitudes of the planet, not the polar regions, because of differences in its magnetic field, which determine the span of auroras, said O’Donoghue.
NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light d… ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during ...